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Consider yourself warned. Giambattista Bodoni, the unfortunate mouthpiece through which Eco delivers his latest novel, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,” will spare you little effort...
...story begins when Bodoni, a “sixtyish” antiquarian book-dealer whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...
...Arthur Gordon Pym?” Bodoni suggests. “Call me…Ishamael...
Despite his confusion, Bodoni, nicknamed “Yambo,” is soon discharged from the hospital. He returns home with his wife Paola, with whom he has had several children and, apparently, led a happy life, despite the occasional extramarital dalliance...
...other hand, sometimes newly empowered amateur typographers make "uneducated choices" and stick to them. The now-ubiquitous "Times Roman," originally designed for a London newspaper. Replaces such older faces as"Bodoni," "Bembo," and "Baskeryille." The people wield power in the new technology-driven typography, but most people are simultaneously intrigued by novelties and resistant to change...